Moondial - I actually got this out from the library for my daughter to read over Halloween but she wasn't interested and so I read it, having seen a few episodes of the TV version in the late 80s. This was surprisingly spooky! It was also quite entertaining despite the loose ends and unresolved questions. A good ghost story for the 10/11 year olds.

We Have Always Lived in the Castle was good and fun to read, but nothing like what I expected since it was a gothic mystery and I was expecting something a little more mundane-literary-fiction. Most of the characters were suitably insane, orbiting irregularly around a single fixed point